Hi Simon, you almost forgot to mention, we had a crowd of about 200 people, students and ICT Professionals combined.
I heard some pretty amazing stories On and offline. - A 3d year student is setting up a supersecure Kerberos + LDAP + Radius + MySQL environment and wants to encrypt the database (and got stuck at that. Let's see if he posts here and we can help him) - Someone with a tropix laptop is battling with the Atheros drivers. Apparently the signal is very low on linux. I hope we will see his bugreport on the list as well. - There might be a Blender course organised in town in the near future. Lot's of cool things going on! -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Saturday 20 February 2010 15:15:27 Simon Vass wrote: > Dear Luggers > > Well again another successful LUG meeting. We kicked off with a very > interesting presentation from Jubal Harpster who gave us a talk about how > agcommons.org He discussed how they used FLOSS software, such as QGIS and > OpenStreetmaps to perform various mapping projects, and discussed there > upcoming WhereCamp 2010 to be held in Ghana. > > I then kicked off a run through of the customized Ubuntu release I have > been putting together over the last couple of weeks. I suggested that it > could evan become a release in it's own right if enough people would like > to maintain the project. The release is available with David the Systems > Administrator at the software incubator, they will happily make a copy of > the release available to anyone who would like a copy free of charge, for > up to 200 users. So get down there for your copy. I think they will also > be making a copy available on-line. > > Sam of Digital Solutions talked and demonstrated to us how he uses various > Open Source and primarily Linux based development tools. > > We finally finished with a discussion session as always, including the up > coming project to build an Ubuntu Mirror at Makarere and possibly at UCC > and UCU. Will keep you all posted on this project. > > Our thanks to all our guest speakers, Michael Niyitegeka for hosting us. > > On a personal note I am very buoyed by the growing interest in Linux and > Open Source at Makarere and we should all actively support this and other > academic institutions in there efforts. > > Well that's all from me for now, I am looking forward to our March 19th > Meeting. If anyone has suggestions for another venue I would be most > interested to here from you. > > Caio for now! > > > Simon Vass > Technical Manager > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > Email: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
